Introduction: Allow me to start by saying that I am not trying to pick on A.S. Protestant particularly. It is just that I saw this float by attached to someone in my Twitter feed—and because as it ...
A Woke Framing of the Classical Christian School Movement
Preamble Instead of an Introduction: Last week saw something of a commotion in the classical Christian world of education. Jessica Hooten Wilson published an article, and her revised version can be ...
Retractions Are Sometimes Challenging
Last week on Twitter I promised a response to this article by Jessica Hooten Wilson. That promise will need to be adjusted somewhat because of some intervening events. On Saturday evening, a number of the principals had a Zoom meeting which removed some (but not all) of the difficulties. Unfortunately, as much as I appreciate …
Misinformed About Misinformation
Introduction: Brian Stelter, formerly of CNN, recently hosted a panel discussion at Davos for the World Economic Forum, and the topic was disinformation. Other folks might call it misinformation. ...
Deuteronomy and Harvest Weight
Introduction: One of the reasons that Christians get into a muddle about how their sanctification should look is that they don't know how to fit the blessings of the material world into it. Not only ...
A Brief Introductory Glossary on the Relationship of Christians and Jews
Introduction: At a recent meeting of Knox Presbytery (CREC), we adopted two short statements on ethnic issues. These statements reflect the position of our presbytery, and were entered accordingly into our minutes. The first passed unanimously, and the second with one dissenting vote—and that was only because he believed the second one was redundant, having …
My 360° Whiteness Review
Introduction: While some might want me to begin today's installment by avowing that the November goal is not to attack everybody—as though I were trying to start a Reformed version of Festivus ...
Don’t Waste Your Fifteen Minutes
Introduction: Andy Warhol once famously said that in the future everybody was going to get their fifteen minutes of fame. If you make the second and third rounds, as we here in Moscow have done a few times, a predictable thing then happens. What happens is that if the critics were puppies and kittens, all …
Kin, Skin, & Sin
Introduction: The time has once more arose, as the fellow once said, to have a little thoughtful interaction with the concept of kinism. What I want to do here is have a little give and take ...
Not Different Truths, Just Different Tribes and Teams
In news that should startle and amaze precisely no one, it appears that a controversy has broken out on Twitter. It happened on this wise. In response to the #BuffaloMassacre and #ReplacementTheory, Jackie Hill Perry tweeted this: “Say what ya want about Farrakhan (because there’s a whole lot to say) but this right here is …